Question

I have a PHP while loop that loads user comments – I need to exclude the most recent row in the database.

$sql = "SELECT c.trackid, c.comment, c.time, c.userid, u.id, u.username FROM 
comments c
LEFT JOIN users u
ON u.id = c.userid
WHERE trackid='$trackid'
ORDER BY c.time DESC";



$i=1;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
  echo "<div class=\"commentDivs\">" . $row['time'] ."<br><br> " . $row['username'] . "<div class=\"userPostedComments\">" . $row['comment'] . "</div></div>";
}

How do I exclude the most recent row from the loop?

Answer 1

you can do it this way you will have to run 2 queries first to find the id of the latest comment ….

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT id FROM tbl_name ORDER BY id DESC");
$row = mysql_fetch_array($sql);
$latest_id = $row['id'];

This will give you the latest id and then you can run the next query like this

$sql1 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tbl_name WHERE id != '$latest_id' ORDER BY id DESC");
 while($row1 = mysql_fetch_array($sql1))
 {    }

and let us know what you trying to do , might be that will make your code more clean